Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain of the 1949 varsity is senior Joe Fox, a sprinter, who started in the 50 and 100 yard freestyle events and as anchor-man in the 400-yard relay last year...
...INDIA Anchor for Asia...
With China lost to Communism, the free world needed a new anchor in Asia. Whether India could play that role depended largely on the chance of much closer understanding and cooperation between India and the U.S., a land almost unknown to nine-tenths of Nehru's countrymen. Washington was taking careful account of the Prime Minister's longstanding prejudice and his people's instinctive suspicion of the "imperialist West...
...would come from the air. But military men would also have to face up to another possibility: a sneak attack could come even more devastatingly by sea. Defensive plans would have to be devised to cope with the possibility of atomic explosions set off from foreign ships riding at anchor in U.S. harbors...
...first time since before the Spanish civil war, a visiting squadron of four U.S. warships (cruisers Columbus and Juneau, destroyers Stribling and Bordelon) steamed into the harbor of El Ferrol, where Francisco Franco was born. While ships of the Spanish Navy fired a salute, the U.S. vessels dropped anchor. High-ranking Spanish officials climbed aboard the flagship Columbus to greet Admiral Richard Conolly, Commander in Chief U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. From then on, until the Americans left five days later, there was a round of receptions, dinners and ceremonies. U.S. sailors poured ashore to see the sights...